<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=386710" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Crowing of the Red Cock</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Across the Eastern sky has glowed <br>The flicker of a blood-red dawn, <br>Once more the clarion cock has crowed, <br>Once more the sword of Christ is drawn. <br>A million burning rooftrees light <br>The world-wide path of Israel's flight. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where is the Hebrew's fatherland? <br>The folk of Christ is sore bestead; <br>The Son of Man is bruised and banned, <br>Nor finds whereon to lay his head. <br>His cup is gall, his meat is tears, <br>His passion lasts a thousand years. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each crime that wakes in man the beast, <br>Is visited upon his kind. <br>The lust of mobs, the greed of priest, <br>The tyranny of kings, combined <br>To root his seed from earth again, <br>His record is one cry of pain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the long roll of Christian guilt <br>Against his sires and kin is known, <br>The flood of tears, the life-blood spilt, <br>The agony of ages shown, <br>What oceans can the stain remove, <br>From Christian law and Christian love? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Nay, close the book; not now, not here, <br>The hideous tale of sin narrate, <br>Reëchoing in the martyr's ear, <br>Even he might nurse revengeful hate, <br>Even he might turn in wrath sublime, <br>With blood for blood and crime for crime. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Coward? Not he, who faces death, <br>Who singly against worlds has fought, <br>For what? A name he may not breathe, <br>For liberty of prayer and thought. <br>The angry sword he will not whet, <br>His nobler task is -- to forget.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Emma+Lazarus">Emma Lazarus</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=386710" data-title="The Crowing of the Red Cock de Emma Lazarus" data-description="Across the Eastern sky has glowed The flicker of a blood-red dawn, Once more the clarion cock has crowed, Once more the sword of Christ is drawn. A million burning rooftrees light The world-wide path of Israel's flight. Where is the Hebrew'..."></div> </div> </div>

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